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1918 
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RULES AND REGULATIONS 
CONCERNING PASSES. 



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INFORMATION CONCERNING WATERFRONT PASSES 



J. B. Holohan, United States Marshal, will maintain a branch office 
in the office of the Chief Wharfinger, foot of Washington street and 
just north of Ferry building, for the distribution of passes. The 
existing system will operate until further notice. 

Address all communications to 

UNITED STATES MARSHAL, 

Branch Office, 

Ferry Building, 

San Francisco. 



Under instructions heretofore issued owners and operators of water- 
front facilities were charged with the duty of appointing identification 
inspectors capable of identifying each person seeking access thereto. 
United States marshals should immediately cause an investigation to 
be made of all such facilities within their respective jurisdictions, and 
where any such owners or operators have failed to comply with said 
instructions their attention should be called to the necessity of making 
such appointments forthwith. The regulation establishing barred zones 
about water-front facilities must be vigorously enforced. 

In order to make said regulations as effective as possible, by keeping 
all persons not having lawful business from entering or going upon 
said water-front facilities, identification inspectors, after the pass 
system hereinafter described has become effective, shall not allow any 
person to enter their respective piers, wharves, docks, or w^ater-front 
facilities unless such person is the holder of a water-front pass or is 
properly identified, as hereinafter provided. 

Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to modify the said thir- 
teenth regulation, which prohibits German alien enemies from entering 
water-front zones. Passes must not be issued to German alien enemies 
under any circumstances. 

PASS SYSTEM. 

Blank water-front passes will be provided by the Department of 
Justice. United States marshals should immediately communicate with 
the owners or operators of all water-front facilities in their jurisdic- 
tions which are within the purview of said regulation 13, and ascertain 
from them the approximate number of passes which will be required 



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for each such facility. Each United States marshal must then advise 
the Department of Justice of the total number of water-front passes 
required in his district. 

The form of the front or face of the pass will be as follows : 

Port of 

Pass 

Residence 

Nationality 




Occupation _. 
Employed by 
Location 



United States Marshal. 
Number 

Date 

The form of the back of the pass will be as follows : 



(Signature of employer.) 



(Signature of holder.) 

This pass is issued under the following conditions: 

1. It is revocable at any time. 

2. It will be taken up if offered by any person other than the one 
to whom it is issued, and the person so presenting it will be placed 
under arrest and dealt with according to law. 

3. It is not good for the baggage inclosure of incoming and outgoing 
vessels. 

4. All parcels or other wrapped articles must be inspected when 
carried in or removed from the premises covered by the pass. Its 
possession does not release the holder from this procedure. 

Upon receipt of advice from each United States marshal of the 
number of passes required for the water-front facilities in his jurisdic- 
tion the Department of Justice will forward the blank w r ater-front 
passes to the marshal. United States marshals shall then distribute 
the water-front passes to the owners or operators of each water-front 
facility in their jurisdictions. Such owners or operators shall then 
prepare in triplicate water-front passes for each of their officers, agents, 
and employees engaged in or about their respective water-front facilities, 
and return them to the United States marshal. Each- of such water- 
front passes so prepared by the owners or operators of such water-front 



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facilities must be signed by the proposed holder of the pass, his 
employer, and the United States marshal, and must have securely affixed 
to the pass in the space provided therefor a photograph of the proposed 
holder of such pass not larger than H inches square. Such photograph 
must be furnished by the proposed holder of the pass or his employer. 
The expense of preparing such water-front passes shall be borne by 
the owners or operators of such water-front facilities or the proposed 
holder of the water-front pass. They shall be completely filled in by said 
employer, and after the. photographs are attached and the signatures 
of the proposed holder and the employer are affixed thereto they shall 
be returned to the United States marshal, who must affix his signature 
thereto, and must also affix his seal in such way that it will cover a 
part of the attached photograph. One of each of said passes so issued in 
triplicate shall be retained by the United States marshal and filed in 
his office ; one shall be returned to the owner or operator of the water- 
front facility ; and one shall be given to the person for whom it was 
prepared. 

The holder of a water-front pass shall be entitled to enter only the 
particular wharf, pier, dock, or other water-front facility mentioned 
in his pass. The description in the water-front pass of the wharf, 
pier, dock or other water-front facility for which said pass is issued 
must be accurate and definite, in order that its use may be limited to 
the particular premises therein described. 

1. Longshoremen. — Owing to the fact that the duties of longshoremen 
compel them to shift from place to place in water-front zones at frequent 
intervals, passes issued to them should not restrict their use to one 
particular facility. In the space provided for "location" the employer 
issuing the pass may write the word "universal. ' ' Otherwise longshore- 
men's passes shall be prepared in the same manner that passes are 
prepared for employees of owners or operators of water-front facilities. 

2. Teamsters and Chauffeurs. — Each teamster, driver, or chauffeur 
making deliveries to or taking merchandise from water-front facilities 
must exhibit a water-front pass before he shall be allowed to enter upon 
the premises. Such pass shall be prepared by the immediate employer 
of such teamster, driver, or chauffeur on the form provided for regular 
employees of owners or operators of water-front facilities. In the space 
provided for "location," however, the person issuing such pass may 
write the word "universal." In all other respects the pass shall be 
prepared and issued in the same manner that employees' passes are 
prepared and issued. 

3. Crews of Vessels. — Passes will be issued for the purpose of per- 
mitting the crews of vessels to pass through the piers, wharves and 



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docks at which their vessels are moored. These passes should be issued 
on the form provided for employees of owners or operators of water- 
front facilities. Passes should be issued to one or more officers of the 
vessel, and in the space designated "employed by" the name of the 
vessel should be indicated. Such passes shall be honored only at the 
pier designated therein. In lieu of* the signature of the employer the 
owner or operator of such water-front facility may sign each pass. No 
member of the crew of any such vessel shall be permitted to enter or 
leave such water-front facility unless accompanied by the holder of such 
a pass who vouches for the integrity and loyalty of such person to the 
identification inspector employed at such water-front facility. Such 
passes shall also be issued in triplicate but need not contain the photo- 
graph of the holder. The}' shall not be honored by identification inspec- 
tors until signed and sealed by the United States marshal. 

4. Lightermen. — The pass system must be maintained in such way 
that access to water-front facilities shall be restricted from the water 
as well as from the land side of such facilities. Passes for captains 
and members of the crews of lighters shall be issued on the regular form 
provided for employees of owners and operators of water-front facilities. 
In the space reserved in the pass for "location" the employer issuing 
such pass may write the word ' ' universal. ' ' 

5. Commercial Representatives and Other Persons. — All persons not 
actually employed by owners or operators of water-front facilities but 
having business to do at such facilities at frequent intervals should 
procure water-front passes in the same manner as employees of owners 
or operators of such water-front facilities. The form of pass provided 
for employees of owners or operators of water-front facilities shall also 
be used for all such persons. 

All other persons having business at water-front facilities shall 
procure passes from the United States marshals, permitting them to 
enter such facilities. These passes may be issued on the form provided 
r'or employees of owners or operators of water-front facilities. The 
United States marshal, on the face of each such pass, shall make a 
notation that its use is limited to the day of the date upon which said 
pass was issued, and identification inspectors shall use extreme caution 
to limit the use of such pass to the day of date of issue only. Such 
pass, however, need not contain the photograph of the holder. The 
United States marshal, or any other person preparing such pass, in the 
space designated "location" shall insert the name of the water-front 
facility for which the pass is to be used. Each pass herein provided 
for shall be issued by the United States marshal upon application of 
the employer of the proposed holder of such pass. 



No passes will be issued to persons merely for the purpose of entering 
water-front facilities to greet passengers on incoming vessels, or taking 
leave of passengers on the departure of vessels. 

No owner or operator of any water-front facility or employer of 
any of the classes of persons above mentioned, shall issue a pass to 
any of his officers, agents or employees unless and until such owner, 
operator or employer has secured and is maintaining an authentic 
record of the name, address, nationality, date of employment, and 
name and address of last previous employer of each such officer, agent 
or employee, as required by the instructions to owners and operators 
of water-front facilities heretofore issued by the Department of Justice. 
United States marshals shall cause an inspection of these records to be 
made from time to time for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not 
water-front passes have been properly issued. 

Whenever the holder of a water-front pass leaves the employ of the 
person, firm, or corporation issuing and signing the pass, such employee 
must obtain the pass from the holder thereof and cancel the same. The 
owners or operators of water-front facilities for which such passes were 
issued shall certify the identification inspectors employed at such 
facilities of the cancellation of such passes. Whenever for any reason 
such owner, operator, or employer is unable to obtain and destroy such 
pass he shall, within 24 hours after the time that the holder thereof 
has left his employ, notify the United States marshal of the district in 
which said water-front facility is located, giving the name and resi- 
dence address of the holder of the pass. The owner or operator shall 
also advise each identification inspector employed upon such water-front 
facility of the name and number of such pass, and instruct each identi- 
fication inspector to take up such pass when presented and refuse to 
permit any person presenting it to enter the premises. 

If the holder of any water-front pass shall be absent from his employ- 
ment for a period of 48 hours without satisfactory explanation therefor 
being given to the owner, operator, or employer signing and issuing such 
pass, such owner, operator, or employer shall immediately advise the 
United States marshal of the district in which such water-front facility 
is located, giving the name and residence address of the holder of such 
pass. 

Owners, operators, and employers must report to the United States 
marshals of their respective districts the loss or wrongful transfer of 
any pass, giving the name and residence address of the person to whom 
such pass was issued. A list of all such passes reported to the United 
States marshal as lost or wrongfully transferred shall be posted at each 
entrance to the facilities for which such lost passes were issued, as 



aforesaid. Identification inspectors must be instructed to refuse to 
admit any person who presents a pass reported on this list as lost or 
wrongfully transferred. 

Adequate protection of piers, wharves, docks, and water-front facili- 
ties specified in the President's proclamation of November 16, 1917, can 
not be maintained without the full cooperation of the persons, firms, 
and corporations owning or operating such facilities, and the responsi- 
bility for affording such protection rests upon them equally with the 
government officials. 

James B. Holohan, 
Februarv 20, 1918. United States Marshal 



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